Prayer Breakfast focuses on God being in control

· January 10, 2019 ·

The dining room was packed for the 2019 Governor’s Prayer Breakfast — the first to be hosted by Mike Parson. And the federal government’s partial shutdown kept the advertised keynote speaker — Dr. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who now heads the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — from making the trip. But there was only one, vague reference to that situation during Thursday morning’s Prayer Breakfast — and no mention of Carson by name. “I wish a lot of the federal government was here this morning,” Parson said, calling attention to the large, red banner over the central stage, with the prayer breakfast’s theme, “God Is In Control,” in big white letters across the top. “They could look at that banner behind me,” the governor continued, “because, regardless of what they’re doing, they are not in control.” Both Parson and St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts, the last-minute keynote speaker in Carson’s place, focused on that theme of keeping God at the forefront of our lives. “I am honored to be a participant in the 2019 prayer breakfast,” Betts said, reminding the nearly 800 people in the audience that the breakfast “is an interfaith event for all leaders… Read full this story

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